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NYC mayor condemns senator’s anti-Muslim posts as ‘bigotry’ amid rising Islamophobia
Mamdani called on Muslim Americans to celebrate their faith openly, while describing a climate of deepening pressure
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NEW YORK, United States (MNTV) – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama for posting an image juxtaposing Mamdani’s photo with scenes from the September 11 attacks alongside the words “the enemy is inside the gates,” calling it “bigotry.”
Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor, has faced repeated verbal attacks during Ramadan. Speaking at an iftar dinner Thursday evening, he said many American Muslims face persistent prejudice.
“When I hear such hatred and disdain unchecked in its rancor, I feel a loneliness and isolation that I know many of you have felt as well,” he said. “Who here has been told, you do not belong in New York City? Who here has been told, go back where you came from?”
Tuberville also claimed on Thursday that “Americans are being gunned down in the streets almost daily by Radical Islamists” — a claim experts say is false. A 2025 study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that attacks in the U.S. by Muslim extremists are rare and “not resurgent.”
Republican leaders were largely silent about Tuberville’s posts. Democrats were more vocal, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer describing them as “mindless hate.”
“Muslim Americans are cops, doctors, nurses, teachers, bankers, bricklayers, mothers, fathers, neighbors, mayors, and more,” Schumer said. “Islamophobic hate like this is fundamentally un-American.” Senator Bernie Sanders called Tuberville’s attack on Mamdani “nothing less than blatant Islamophobic racism.”
Earlier this month, prominent far-right New York City radio host Sid Rosenberg issued a partial apology after calling Mamdani an “America-hating, Jew-hating, Radical Islam cockroach,” saying his comments were “a bit over the top.”
At the iftar dinner, Mamdani called on Muslim Americans to celebrate their faith openly, while describing a climate of deepening pressure. “What I so often hear is the pressure to fit oneself into an ever-narrowing box, to suppress parts of oneself in the hope of finding acceptance,” he said.
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